Exodus 4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:15

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth ,.... Or "things" F26 את הדברים . , the matter and substance of what he should say, who being a man of words, an eloquent man, and a good spokesman, would put them into proper language, and express them fluently: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do ; or speak what Moses should say to Aaron, and what Aaron should say to Pharaoh, and to the people of Israel; so that as... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:16

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people ,.... And open to them Moses's commission from God, and the end of his mission into Egypt, and to them, and declare what signs had been, and would be done, in confirmation of it: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth ; or an interpreter, as all the Targums explain it, and so Jarchi; as he was an orator and master of language, he should speak to the people for Moses, and explain his sense and meaning, and put it into... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:17

And thou shall take this rod in thine hand ,.... Which he then had in his hand, and was no other than his shepherd's staff: wherewith thou shall do signs : wondrous things, meaning the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:18

And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law ,.... With his flock of sheep he kept, Exodus 3:1 , and said unto him: let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren which are in Egypt ; the Israelites, who were so by nation and religion; as Jethro had been kind and beneficent to him, he did not choose to leave him without his knowledge and consent, and especially to take away his wife and children without it: and see whether they be yet alive ; it seems by this that... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:19

And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian ,.... After he had obtained leave of his father-in-law to quit Midian, but before he left it: go, return into Egypt : that is, directly, immediately; before he had only given him a commission at large to go thither, but had not fixed the time when he should go; but now he orders him to set forward at once: for all the men are dead which sought thy life ; to take it away, the king of Egypt, and his ministers, and the friends of the Egyptian Moses... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:20

And Moses took his wife, and his sons ,.... Gershom and Eliezer; by which it appears that he intended to stay in Egypt, and that he believed that God would work deliverance by him: and set them upon an ass : which though with us a mean creature, yet in those times and countries were rode upon by great personages; and these, as Aben Ezra says, were reckoned in Egypt more honourable than mules. It may be the singular is put for the plural, and that each of them was set upon an ass, with... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:21

And the Lord said unto Moses ,.... At the same time he appeared to him in Midian, and ordered him to go into Egypt, even before his departure thither: when thou goest to return into Egypt ; and when got thither; for before the thing directed to in the next clause could not be done: see that thou do all these wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in thine hand ; not the three signs or wonders, related in the preceding part of the chapter, for they were to be done not before Pharaoh,... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:22

And thou shall say unto Pharaoh ,.... When arrived in Egypt, and in his presence: thus saith the Lord ; he was to declare to him that he came in his name, and by his orders, and, as an ambassador of his, required the dismission of the children of Israel out of Egypt: Israel is my son, even my firstborn ; as dear to him as a man's firstborn is, or as his only son: adoption is one of the privileges peculiar to Israel after the flesh, even national adoption, with all the external... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:23

And I say unto thee, let my son go, that he may serve me ,.... Worship God according to his will in the place he had designed for him, and where he might be safe and free; and which service was due from him as a son, and to be performed not in a servile way, but in a filial manner, and therefore as a servant he could demand his dismission, and much more as his son; and this is required in an authoritative way, for saying is here commanding, insisting on it as a point of right to be done: ... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:24

And it came to pass by the way, in the inn ,.... As Moses and his family were travelling in their way to Egypt, at an inn where they stopped for the refreshment of themselves and cattle, or in order to lodge all night: so it was, that the Lord met him, and sought to kill him; not the uncircumcised son of Moses, as some think, but Moses himself, who had neglected the circumcision of his son; that from the context, and the fact of Zipporah, after related, seems to be the reason of the divine... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 4:24

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